You can start with the myth that Thai cuisine
impossible acute. In fact, many foods seem so
only those who, in principle, are not used to spices, but in general
professional chefs estimate that the countries of South-East Asia
the use of seasoning is little superior to the Creole cuisine or,
let’s say Algerian.
Another myth is that rice is a staple. But first, in
Thailand has dozens of its varieties of amazing taste,
and secondly, it is rather a popular auxiliary
an ingredient whose presence often allows for personal
discretion to regulate the spiciness / spiciness of a particular dish.
It is also often mixed with meat stews in thick
gravy /
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Story тайской кухни насчитывает свыше 2 800 лет, а значимые
moments of change happened in her, in fact, as in the whole world, in
a period of growing activity of economic and cultural contacts with
другими странами, откуда приходили новые recipes и продукты.
Overall, however, Thai cuisine today remains amazing.
original and this is not it adapts to the modern world, but in it
striving to “read” her food in a new way.
And here it is important not to make a big mistake when adapting
recipes, replacing some ingredients with others, because in the end
you get something just “in Thai style.”
So, there is nothing to take to replace the fish sauce, but tamarind paste
can replace lime juice.
And what other ingredients are often used in Thai
kitchen:
- banana leaves (wrapper for baked fish);
- black chinese tree mushrooms;
- coriander root and leaves;
- coconut milk and cream;
- different variations of Indian curry seasoning;
- egg noodles;
- shrimp paste and dried shrimp;
- soy sauce.
Thai cuisine is very diverse, it has grilled meat under
fruit sauces, a sweet treat delicacy (like sugar
cotton wool), steam buns from dough with fillings (similar to Pyan-se). In
Many dishes mix different types of meat and always use
lots of fresh greens. Soups are often transparent.
broths with coarsely chopped ingredients. Popular salads with
green crunchy papaya and fish baked entirely in herbs and
salt.
Recipes
Tom Yam Soup
Ingredients:
- 1 chicken thigh;
- 0.5 chili peppers;
- fresh cilantro greens;
- 120 ml of coconut milk;
- 1 tbsp. l fish sauce;
- 80 g of shiitake mushrooms;
- 1 clove of garlic;
- 1 shallot;
- 70 ml of vegetable oil;
- 0.5 lime;
- 1 lemongrass wand;
- a piece of ginger root less than a centimeter long;
- 2 leaves of lemon or lime.
Cooking:
- At the chili pepper, remove the stalk, cut the pod, clean
seeds, finely chop the flesh. - Also chop the onion and garlic finely.
- In hot oil, fry alternately garlic and onion, remove
put them on a platter, put the pepper in the butter and stew for 3 minutes.
Return the onions with garlic to the pan, then another 2 minutes. Take off
from the heat and chop the fried products in mashed potatoes. Unused
residues, by the way, can be stored in a glass container in
the fridge. - Boil the chicken in 1 liter of water, remove the meat from the bones in a bowl, and
broth – strain. - Return the broth to the plate, throw lemon leaves, lemongrass
(or zest with half lime), as well as ginger. Count down 5 minutes.
Remove the lemongrass and ginger. - Прибавьте в суп 1 tbsp. l chili paste
- Prepared mushrooms (for example, it is desirable to soak dried
for the whole night) cut and together with the chicken lower in
the pan. - Pour in fish sauce, count down 4 minutes.
- Add coconut milk and measure another 5 minutes.
- Squeeze half the lime and chop the cilantro finely – when serving, in
each plate should be added to a spoonful of juice first and generous
pinch second.
Noodles Pad Thai
Ingredients:
- 300 grams of rice noodles;
- 2 eggs;
- spring onions;
- 3 tbsp. l soy sauce;
- 200 g chicken fillet;
- 6 large shrimp;
- 4 tbsp. l fish sauce;
- vegetable oil;
- half a cup of soybean sprouts;
- 50 g of roasted (but without salt!) Peanuts;
- 3 tbsp. l cane (brown) sugar;
- 1 jalapeno pepper;
- 2 cloves of garlic;
- 2 tbsp. l пасты из тамаринда либо 4 tbsp. l lime juice.
Cooking:
- Cut poultry fillets into strips, cut each shrimp into 2-3
parts. Перемешайте мясные продукты с 1 tbsp. l soy sauce and
leave for 15 minutes. - Remove the tail of the jalapeno, cut it in half and clean
seeds, cut across thinly; - Onion feathers from beginning to end chop.
- Squeeze garlic through a press.
- Fill the noodles with hot water (according to the package instructions and
usually it is for 5 minutes), then fold it in a colander, shake. - Combine tamarind paste (or juice) with fish sauce and
the remaining soy, as well as sugar. - Break eggs, stir and fry for a couple of minutes
a greased skillet in a sloppy omelet – in the process
disassemble it with a spatula into small pieces. - Heat the oil in a pan, put the green onion, jalapeno
and garlic, fry everything. - Put the shrimp with chicken in the pan and count on them
frying 4 minutes. - Add omelet to meat.
- Then noodles. Start mixing it with everyone. products
gradually adding the sauce. - Last add sprouts, mix everything again, sprinkle.
peanuts.
Roti pancakes
Ingredients:
- 70 ml of milk;
- 430 g of flour;
- vegetable oil;
- condensed milk;
- several ripe bananas;
- 120 ml of green tea;
- chocolate and nut paste;
- salt;
- 2 ч. l honey
Cooking:
- Sift flour into the bowl twice.
- Перемешайте ее с сахаром и щепоткой salt.
- Pour in warm green tea, warm milk and about half a cup.
vegetable oil, add honey. - Substitute not too thick, elastic dough. give him
�”Rest” in a bowl for 40 minutes. - Remember the dough and divide into pieces – pieces 20, roll them in
oil and leave in bowl for 20 minutes. - Proceed to baking pancakes, for which each ball of dough
should be rolled into the thinnest translucent layer and put on
well heated pan, oiled. - Immediately (pancake is cooked very quickly) put in the middle
dough in a pan sliced bananas, you can still – a spoon
chocolate and nut paste. - Wrap the pancake edges towards the center on both sides and gently.
turn over for a short while – somewhere in half a minute-minute it’s time
remove from pan.
Put the roti on a plate and quickly cut with a knife into four
parts. Pour with condensed milk.
